Michelle Sexton is a liaison from the American Society of Pharmacognosy to the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia. She introduced Roy Upton, who studied herbal medicine in the US, Virgin Islands, and China and helped establish standards for herbal supplements. In 2013, the American Herbal Pharmacopoeia published a comprehensive monograph on Cannabis that establishes quality standards and reviews its historical uses, modern research, and safety. The monograph was developed collaboratively and provides a valuable resource for understanding medicinal Cannabis.

1. Michelle Sexton ND
Bastyr University Research Institute
Liaison from ASA to the
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia

2. “Back to Eden”
by Jethro Kloss

3. • Roy Upton : Native American Native t,
studied the ethnobotany of the United
States, Virgin Islands, China.
• Director, Planetary Formulas
• Executive director and editor of the
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia®
• Roy is co-founder, past president of the
American Herbalists Guild
• led grassroots political efforts to secure
passage of the Dietary Supplement Health
and Education Act (DSHEA)
2012 winner of the American Society of
He has brought America's Pharmacognosy (ASP) Varro. E. Tyler award for
collective knowledge of herbal outstanding lifetime contributions to the field
medicine to the world stage. of herbal medicine.

4. Cannabis interruptus
Cannabis Time Line
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5. Historical Reference
Cannabis flower (huo ma hua; 火麻花), combined with datura flower (originally given as shan
qie hua (山茄花; Datura spp., yang jin hua; 洋金花) (Dou 1127-1279)
1811: Homeopathic Materia medica
Amer ican M ater ia M edica,
T her apeutics and
Phar macognosy
D eveloping the L atest Acquir ed Know ledge of
D r ugs, and Especially of the D ir ect Action of
Single D r ugs U pon Exact Conditions of D isease,
w ith Especial Refer ence of the T her apeutics of
the Plant D r ugs of the Amer icas.
By
F I N L EY EL L I N GWOOD , M .D .
1919
L at e Pr ofessor of M at er ia M edica and Ther apeut ics in Bennet t M edical College,

6. 2013:
Rolling out the Green Carpet:
Welcoming Cannabis to the
American Herbal Pharmacopoeia
Internationally regarded as among the most
comprehensive, practically useful, and critically
reviewed monographs in the world (literally)!

8. * Developed in collaboration with the University of Mississippi,
the only federally legal source of medicinal Cannabis in the US.
* Provides complete battery of physical and chemical tests for
identity, purity, quality, and potency.
* Provides key information on cultivation, harvest, drying,
storage, processing.
* Establishes criteria for foreign matter, moisture content,
microbiological burden, pesticide residues, residual solvents.
* Beautiful photographs and illustrations to facilitate
identification and quality assessment of crude material.
* Clarifies some of the misconceptions and myths about
different species.

10. * Provides a detailed review of the authoritative historical literature on the medicinal
uses of the plant.
* Presents a comprehensive review of modern clinical trials.
* Provides an overview of basic pharmacology and pre-clinical research and dosing
* Provides a complete review of safety including; adverse effects, contraindications,
carcinogenicity, interactions with conventional medications, use in pregnancy and
lactation, influence on driving, and toxicology.
* Outlines medical use of Cannabis according to Ayurvedic, Chinese, and Western
herbal medicine traditions.
* Presents an overview of the regulation of Cannabis domestically and worldwide.
* Separates wheat from chaff as to what is known about the appropriate and safe use
of Cannabis medicinally versus misperceptions of what many people believe.

11. The AHP Cannabis monograph has been developed by a multi-disciplinary cadre of
historians, botanists, chemists, pharmacologists, pharmacognosists, pharmacists,
physicians, and traditional herbal medicine practitioners.
Therapeutics
Progress Report Pharmacokinetics
Complete drafts of the following sections: Addiction & Dependence
(under development) Use as a substitute for alcohol withdrawals
Effects on appetite
Quality Control Anti-Cancer Effects
History Effects on the skin
Botany Endocannabinoid system
Macroscopic & Microscopic Morphology Effects on Migraines
Commercial Sources and Handling Movement disorders (MS, epilepsy,
Constituents Parkinson's, Tourette's, ALS)
Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) Nausea-Vomiting
Gas Chromatography Ophthalmology
International Status Anxiety
HPLC Gynecology
Pesticide, microbiological and Pain
residual solvents limits Cancer
Safety
Alzheimer’s
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Exciting Developments in Medical Cannabis
More detailed description of the monograph and other
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